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Foster Transitive  To Period Time Child Adopt A 

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foster

Back 1 [transitive] to help a 
skill
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, feeling, idea etc 
develop
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 over a period of time
 SYN encouragepromote 
The bishop helped foster the sense of a community embracing all classes.

2 [intransitive, transitive] to take someone else’s child into your family for a period of time but without becoming their 
legal
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parent
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 → adopt 
The couple wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering.

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